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2008: Decision Year for RIAs - October 20-22, 2008 San Jose
"Flex Developer Bootcamp" is an intensive, one-day hands-on training program that will teach Web developers and designers how to build Rich Internet Application using Flex. Held on Sunday, March 18, the day before the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo begins, Flex Developer Bootcamp is a hands-on workshop that is not offered anywhere else: during this day attendees will create two fully functional applications. This workshop will be taught by Flex experts from Farata Systems – Yakov Fain (Adobe Certified Flex Instructor) and Dr. Victor Rasputnis, co-authors of the book Developing RIA with Adobe Flex and Java.
Pre-requisites: working knowledge of any object-oriented programming language.
Each student has to bring his/her laptop with preinstalled trial version of Flex Builder, Flex Data Services and MySql database.
What is Flex™? From the same company that brought you the most pervasive software in the history of the Internet, Flash™, comes another revolutionary solution to create even more powerful and intuitive user experiences. Adobe Flex 2 is a complete, powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs), within theenterprise and across the web. Not until now has there been a way for enterprise programmers and architects to work with existing tools of choice, familiar programming models and integration with existing systems and infrastructure. Multi-step processes, client-side processing, direct manipulation and data visualization are all key factors in the Flex solution.
What Attendees of Real-World Flex Had to Say: “This was really an excellent seminar. Its strength was that it did not focus on just one aspect of Flex, but rather several - RIA capabilities, Flex-Java integration, user interface design, web services with Flex, next generation Flex. I would hope that future seminars would preserve this diversity of perspectives.”
“It was good to see the level of interest in Flex. It was also reassuring to see the kinds of things that are possible with serious Flex development.”
“In general, I found the presentations inspiring.”
“It was a great experience”
“I thought the seminar was excellent.”
TIME
ACTIVITY
8:00am-830am
Students’ Computers/Software Compatibility Check
8:30am-8:50am
Overview of Rich Internet Technologies -What is Rich Internet Application - RIA – the major choices Adobe Flex 2, Java, WPF, Ajax, Open Laszlo and more - Flex 2 Architecture, tools and components
8:50am-9:30am
Hands-on development -Getting familiar with Flex Builder IDE, -Programming Hello World using MXML -Programming Calculator using MXML and ActionScript
9:30am-10:00am
Data-Driven Controls, Data Binding, processing XML - Populating Data Grids and MVC pattern - The power of data binding. - XML processing with E4X
10:00am-10:30am
Hands-on development - Using layouts and navigators - Start working on the stock portfolio XML-based data
Getting data from remote computers Using HTTPService Using Flex to connect to remote Java objects
11:45am-12:30pm
Hands-On development - Adding the RSS news reader to stock portfolio application - Master-detail processing
12:30pm-1:30pm
Lunch and book signing. Students have option to work through lunch with support from instructor
1:30PM-2:00PM
Building Flex-Java-DBMS application from start to finish . - Overview of the architecture - Review of the database table structure and DAO object - Configuring Flex remoting - Population of the datagrid with customers info from the database
2:15PM-2:30PM
Hands-On development of the customer-viewer application (Flex, Java, MySQL)
2:30PM-2:45PM
Maintaining State on the Client; - Where the user session belongs: client vs. server - Using Flex managed objects to maintain state in the client - Automatic data sync-up between Flex and server-side Java
2:45PM-3:00PM
Break
3:00PM-3:30PM
Hands-On development – Adding update, insert, delete to the customer application
3:30PM-3:45PM
Rapid application development with Flex -Using DAOFlex Eclipse plugin for automatic code generation of all Java and Flex artifacts
3:45PM-4:05PM
Hand-On
4:05PM-4:30PM
Updates and Transaction Management; - Introducing batch database operations
4:30PM-4:50PM
Hands-On development - customers can place orders.
4:50PM-5:10PM
Making Custom Database-aware Components - How to create a combobox with auto-complete feature (Google Suggest style)
5:10PM-5:30PM
Hands-on development -Adding the auto-complete combobox to the customer application. Filtering customers as you type.
About the Speakers
Yakov Fain is a Principal Consultant of Farata Systems. He's responsible for the Enterprise Architecture and emerging technologies. Yakov authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles, and his blog is hugely popular. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Yakov holds BS and MS in Applied Math. You can reach him at yfain@faratasystems.com. He is Adobe Certified Flex Instructor.
Dr. Victor Rasputnis is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems. He's responsible for providing architectural design, implementation management and mentoring to companies migrating to XML Internet technologies. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Moscow Institute of Robotics. You can reach him at vrasputnis@faratasystems.com
From the Authors of "RIA: Secrets of the Masters"
The book is aimed squarely at the IT developers. It is not a replacement of documentation that ships with Flex. It is expected that you would use online help/references for detailed review if the methods and properties. Instead, this book is a practical course that takes you into the world of real-life RIA applications. We also provided open source components and libraries that we hope will help you in your own development.[Click Here to Learn More...]
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launches in Rich Internet
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place in 2007/2008 when
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'07). At the 6th
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RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
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The pressure is on to
keep pace with Web 2.0
entrants into the
marketplace. Rewriting is
expensive; adding AJAX
widgets results in a
complex, unmaintainable
application. Both require
you to hire scarce
JavaScript developers.
Google Web Toolkit -- the
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The Web has evolved into
a structured data space
of loosely connected
databases, enabling
granular data
access-by-reference to
Web-accessible entities,
courtesy of HTTP. This
evolution and the
emergence of AJAX-based
RIA technologies lay the
foundation for a new
generation of libraries
SaaS based applications
continue to grow at a
staggering rate.
According to software
market analysts, SaaS
represented approximately
5% of business software
revenue in 2005 and, by
2011, 25% of new business
software will be
delivered as SaaS and
will grow at a 21% %
annual growth rate
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are pushing the 'Rich
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envelope, AJAX is quickly
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AJAX are being forced to
morph from two-tier to
three-tier architectures,
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that starts with a blank
directory and builds a
data-driven, AJAX
enabled, ASP.NET web
application from scratch
that implements common
AJAX patterns with the
rich set of AJAX Control
Toolkit, accesses data
with LINQ, and implements
standards
Not only enterprise
portals integrators are
using AJAX at the portal
level but now they can
also use it for the
development of more
user-friendly JSR-168
portlets. With the
arrival of new standards,
AJAXified JSF Components
like IceFaces ot
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reality that can be
portab
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of technologies to take
advantage of to add AJAX
behaviors to your
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and Spring, and will dive
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of an excellent User
eXperience, but the
ultimate success of the
UX is driven more by the
skill of the developer
than the tool selection
itself. This session will
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and importance of the
application of cognitive
science techniques to the
pr
Read about Forrester's
findings on RIA security
included in a Forrester
Research paper valued at
$775 titled 'Securing
Rich Internet
Applications' by Jeffrey
Hammond, plus find out
about Curl's Security
Architecture in a new
Curl white paper titled
'Developing Secure Rich
Interne
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted
RIAs offer the potential
to fundamentally change
the user experience and
in doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. The theme of
this October's AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
West is 'Beyond AJAX to
the RIA Era' and the Call
for Papers, which is
currently still open, spe
A round-up of the overall
themes and topics being
presented at the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo at
The Fairmont Hotel in San
Jose, CA, October 20-22,
2008 - including AIR &
Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET,
Google Web Toolkit (GWT),
iPhone Development,
JavaScript, Mashup
IBM claims to have
created new species of
custom-built,
industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server
for Web 2.0 and Cloud
Computing companies with
massive data centers and
tens of thousands of
servers, like online
gaming, social networks,
search and Internet
firms. A relatively li
Your registrations includes: Golden Pass Delegates will receive full conference access on October 20-22, 2008 including: Lunch and Coffee Breaks, Collectible Bag and Archives of all sessions on DVD. Includes access to all Conference Sessions including the Technical Sessions, Exhibits, Keynotes, Vendor Technology Presentations, and Power Panels.
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AJAXWorld Magazine is the pre-eminent independent vendor-neutral resource for the fastest growing new segment of the software business: entirely Web-based applications and experiences.
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
In ASP.NET 2.0, we
introduced a very
powerful set of
application services in
ASP.NET (Membership,
Roles and profile). In
3.5 we created a client
library for accessing
them from Ajax and .NET
Clients and exposed them
via WCF web services. For
more information on the
base level ASP.NET 
The pressure is on to
keep pace with Web 2.0
entrants into the
marketplace. Rewriting is
expensive; adding AJAX
widgets results in a
complex, unmaintainable
application. Both require
you to hire scarce
JavaScript developers.
Google Web Toolkit -- the
SDK that allows you to
write AJAX i
The Web has evolved into
a structured data space
of loosely connected
databases, enabling
granular data
access-by-reference to
Web-accessible entities,
courtesy of HTTP. This
evolution and the
emergence of AJAX-based
RIA technologies lay the
foundation for a new
generation of libraries
SaaS based applications
continue to grow at a
staggering rate.
According to software
market analysts, SaaS
represented approximately
5% of business software
revenue in 2005 and, by
2011, 25% of new business
software will be
delivered as SaaS and
will grow at a 21% %
annual growth rate 
As Web-based applications
are pushing the 'Rich
User Experience'
envelope, AJAX is quickly
becoming a standard
front-end for any PHP
application. But
unfortunately as PHP
applications that utilize
AJAX are being forced to
morph from two-tier to
three-tier architectures,
pushing code to
Come see a no-slides,
code-only presentation
that starts with a blank
directory and builds a
data-driven, AJAX
enabled, ASP.NET web
application from scratch
that implements common
AJAX patterns with the
rich set of AJAX Control
Toolkit, accesses data
with LINQ, and implements
standards 
Not only enterprise
portals integrators are
using AJAX at the portal
level but now they can
also use it for the
development of more
user-friendly JSR-168
portlets. With the
arrival of new standards,
AJAXified JSF Components
like IceFaces ot
RichFaces became a
reality that can be
portab 
Today, there is a wealth
of technologies to take
advantage of to add AJAX
behaviors to your
Spring-based Java Web
applications. This
session will assume you
know the basics of AJAX
and Spring, and will dive
straight into evaluating
the leading AJAX
technologies, and how to
integrate th
RIAs offer the potential
to fundamentally change
the user experience and
in doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. The theme of
this October's AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
West is 'Beyond AJAX to
the RIA Era' and the Call
for Papers, which is
currently still open, spe
A round-up of the overall
themes and topics being
presented at the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo at
The Fairmont Hotel in San
Jose, CA, October 20-22,
2008 - including AIR &
Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET,
Google Web Toolkit (GWT),
iPhone Development,
JavaScript, Mashup
IBM claims to have
created new species of
custom-built,
industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server
for Web 2.0 and Cloud
Computing companies with
massive data centers and
tens of thousands of
servers, like online
gaming, social networks,
search and Internet
firms. A relatively li
